The first Amber Alert was issued in Vermont on Thursday June 26, 2008 for Brooke Bennett. Last seen by her sex offender Uncle.
Yesterday, the body of Brooke Bennett, the 12-year-old girl from Vermont, has been found. Her uncle, convicted sex offender Michael Jacques, had viciously raped and murdered her while initiating her into a child sex ring.
The police knew the sex offender Uncle was lying from the begining. A lie about meeting a friend at the hospital to cover for a lie that she was secretly meeting someone on myspace.
Plus, in an affidavit unsealed earlier Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Burlington, here, the FBI said a teenager they identified as "Juvenile 1" told investigators she accompanied Jacques on June 25 as he tricked his niece into thinking she was going to a party and took her to his home to be initiated that day into a sex ring.
The girl said she was led to believe Brooke "would have sex with adult males" during the initiation, and that she herself had been forced into the ring.
In another blow to the family and town, Brooke's former stepfather, Raymond Gagnon, 40, of San Antonio, Texas, was formally charged Wednesday with obstructing justice in the case. He entered no plea at the federal hearing and was denied bail pending another hearing on Monday.
There are so many wrongs here. Are they doing this child sex ring in Vermont because they don't have a version of Jessica's Law yet, hence, lighter sentence if caught?
When are we, as a society, going to put an end to these child predators?
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